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Abstract
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid arose in a particular place and time during which scholars were noting the multidimensional nature of many concepts pertaining to sex and gender. The Grid embodies the notion that sexual orientation is more multifaceted than any single number can reflect, as well as the observation that each facet can change over time. At roughly the same time, scholars were also noting that phenomena that had been thought to be bipolar and unidimensional (such as masculinity/femininity) were demonstrably—empirically—two dimensional. A few scholars applied this two-dimensional insight to sexual orientation measurement, but the idea failed to catch on in most empirical studies. The full potential of this insight has yet to be explored.
Notes
1Note that Google Books indexes and previews pages from some books (such as The Bisexual Option) completely. Others—such as the two Kinsey volumes—are previewed and indexed incompletely (as a requirement of the publisher). In many cases in the Female volume (Kinsey et al., 1953), a word on an unpreviewed page is indexed, and a snippet of the forbidden page is shown; it is then easy to consult a print copy for the complete passage. In other cases, there is no trace in Google's index of the words that appear on unpreviewed pages. I have hunted for those words on such pages in my copies and included what I found, but I may have missed some.
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James D. Weinrich
James D. Weinrich, PhD, is currently the editor of the Journal of Bisexuality. He collaborated with Fritz Klein on some innovative studies of bisexuality in the early years of the journal.